If you look at most large websites that get lots of hits from the random public (i.e. yahoo, etc.), I think you will find that their browser stats show 90-99% of people using IE. Several years ago the place I worked at was at the 99% mark with IE so we simply stopped worrying about Netscape compliance, etc.
Those numbers may have changed some since '99 but even back then Netscape was supposed to be "big". It just wasn't big enough for us to care.
Here, Here. I played a lot of FPS games in the early halflife era, but anymore they, as well as all the RPG and RTS games I've bought recently, get a few good hours of play before being shelved.
Then, I started playing Adventure (the old text-based game) the other day and got sucked into it for about 8 hours straight. Granted I hadn't played it for years but hell, it sucked me in and kept me entertained.
Work, family, etc., can get in the way, but if there were games that appealed to the working class marked I think people would make more time for them.
You know, I actually have a real question about this (and I kindof like the color). What constitutes IT on slashdot? Half the articles at least are about IT. Yet, apple has its own section. BSD has its own section, as does Linux, etc. Some of these articles are now being classified as IT, others are still in their respective classifications. What's the point of the new IT section?!
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I've found books help to take me over certain hurdles in learning, particularly with unix. That being said, I kindof need to hit a hurdle for them to be useful, or at least have enough real experience under my belt to see how the material is applicable. Unix Power Tools is a great book, it will show you so many nuts and bolts of any Unix-like OS that it will really put you in another realm. But try picking it up as a noob, it'll only give you a massive headache.
...what is the problem with adventure? Humans would doubtfully have ever evolved from the primordial sludge without adventure. Some brave organism had to be the first to do something different, to creep from the sea to land, to find that there are better means of survival than barest necessity.
Every time I see a criticism of manned space flight I just think the person is a coward. Adventure is the spice of life, and if someone thinks this is unimportant, well, they are welcome to their opinion. I just wish they wouldn't try to stop the progress of the rest of the race. Space is our destiny.
I guess that to a degree you're correct, for your average home user they probably won't care less about that HDD or its data five years from purchase. Some of us, however, are running even older HW than that. Especially if you set up a production box of some kind and expect it to keep running for years without a lot of intervention, with lots of reads and writes, I would really appreciate that warranty.
Why not a 20-30 year warranty, though? As hardware keeps advancing the need for the latest-and-greatest is becoming less and less a financial motivator for many people. I fully expect that if I bought a medium-end machine today for medium-end needs, it would still be meeting those needs for at least five years.
...how this is different than anything else. Sure, they have their custom layout software, but there are lots of PCB layout packages on the market. Otherwise, you are still faced with:
high cost of small-volume orders
finding and purchasing components in resonable volumes
testing the boards to verify that the mfg process holds up to your needs (maybe not a problem for amateurs but small traces can be a problem)
So, aside from their software, did I just miss the point?
do you put microchips in your pieces of toilet paper?
Well, with hardware being free in the future and all, sure, why not! Imagine a beowolf cluster of those;)
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Wow, for a second there I thought your post title read "vb6 could help solve some net problems".
My head hurts.
At any rate, I don't think this is the proper technology to enforce, er, lack-of-anonymity over the web. It would not be any more secure than the current system--less so, by providing an illusion of security. Internet Cafes, open wifi portals, etc., would still be there.
No, the new decency laws will effectively do this by making it prohibitively expensive to do anything the least bit riskee. No need for laws when you can accomplish the same through extortion;)
...are most cops that get injured in the line of duty attacked by people under the age of 18? I'm glad the law has been stopped--this is, IMO, the duty of the parent not the gov't.
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Why? He's not hurting anyone and I doubt anyone not already crazy would listen to him anyway. Sheesh, how about just leaving the poor guy alone?
...if the robot can survive terminal velocity falls like cats. Cats falling from very high heights (i.e. skyscrapers) tend to survive the fall better than those falling from lower elevations.
Agreed...this has been done quite a bit. While it's impressive that they did get money out of the scammer, I'm assuming that lots of people do fall for these scams. If the only replies the scammers got were from other scammers, the scams would doubtfully continue.
Nowhere to go except, of course, for the next weakest link on the internet-based software chain. You will never be able to create a product that is immune to this type of attack. Using another product will only spell disaster for that product somewhere down the road.
IE is lacking in functionality compared to Mozilla, and the MS development cycle is inadequate to respond to this type of problem, IMO--but the only way to stop the malware is to stop the malware authors. Bounties work, but to really stop them, we would have to sacrifice a lot of privacy which the internet still (sort of) affords.
Agreed. I own a handgun as well. I also go paintballing but the marker looks nothing like a gun and I am not afraid it will be confused with one. I've played airsoft once...In the U.S., as I understand it, it's illegal to be in possession of an airsoft gun that does not have a red tip. This is hearsay through secondhand sources though so I don't know if that's really the law.
At any rate, weilding something that appears to be a gun in public != good idea.
Seriously, this is the most poorly written article I have ever read. Check out these gems:
Video accounted for 27 percent, up from 25.2 percent, the study will say.
So, movie downloads didn't really increase much.
The OECD report does not give separate numbers for pirated downloads and those that do not infringe copyright
I'm not even going to start on this one.
The biggest growth in downloading last year was in "other files" - neither music nor film - which almost doubled their share to about a quarter of all downloads. The category includes software and pornography, but the report gives no breakdown between the two.
Basically, they're saying they have a lot of data and it seems to indicate something, but they can't really say what, so they just threw out some numbers. Nice work, OECD.
The one compelling argument the article mentioned as to why this may happen is that larger companies' only means of expanding their customer base is through acquiring smaller companies. From what I've seen, however, a lot of businesses/individuals go with smaller companies because they have a personal contact there, and the people are local or have some other affiliation with the customer. This can be really nice for custom development and support, even on a medium scale.
Large companies have a tendency to acquire smaller companies and keep them as a separate department, but they inevitably get phased out over time and absorbed into the larger entity. How many people really want to deal with the software giants past a point?
I did not rtfa, but I wonder what happens if funding is declined, and the rovers are still in running condition. Will they be shut down? Could I build a big antenna in my back yard and hack them from afar, having my own personal mars rovers to do my bidding?
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Those numbers may have changed some since '99 but even back then Netscape was supposed to be "big". It just wasn't big enough for us to care.
Then, I started playing Adventure (the old text-based game) the other day and got sucked into it for about 8 hours straight. Granted I hadn't played it for years but hell, it sucked me in and kept me entertained.
Work, family, etc., can get in the way, but if there were games that appealed to the working class marked I think people would make more time for them.
You know, I actually have a real question about this (and I kindof like the color). What constitutes IT on slashdot? Half the articles at least are about IT. Yet, apple has its own section. BSD has its own section, as does Linux, etc. Some of these articles are now being classified as IT, others are still in their respective classifications. What's the point of the new IT section?!
I've found books help to take me over certain hurdles in learning, particularly with unix. That being said, I kindof need to hit a hurdle for them to be useful, or at least have enough real experience under my belt to see how the material is applicable. Unix Power Tools is a great book, it will show you so many nuts and bolts of any Unix-like OS that it will really put you in another realm. But try picking it up as a noob, it'll only give you a massive headache.
Every time I see a criticism of manned space flight I just think the person is a coward. Adventure is the spice of life, and if someone thinks this is unimportant, well, they are welcome to their opinion. I just wish they wouldn't try to stop the progress of the rest of the race. Space is our destiny.
Why not a 20-30 year warranty, though? As hardware keeps advancing the need for the latest-and-greatest is becoming less and less a financial motivator for many people. I fully expect that if I bought a medium-end machine today for medium-end needs, it would still be meeting those needs for at least five years.
...from the goatse.cx server room. We keep getting all these hits with referer 'slashdot.org', and I just can't figure it out...
So, the news is that they have a 2 out of 5 average improvement? C'mon, let's give them a hand, don't chastise them for their success!
- high cost of small-volume orders
- finding and purchasing components in resonable volumes
- testing the boards to verify that the mfg process holds up to your needs (maybe not a problem for amateurs but small traces can be a problem)
So, aside from their software, did I just miss the point?Well, with hardware being free in the future and all, sure, why not! Imagine a beowolf cluster of those;)
My head hurts.
At any rate, I don't think this is the proper technology to enforce, er, lack-of-anonymity over the web. It would not be any more secure than the current system--less so, by providing an illusion of security. Internet Cafes, open wifi portals, etc., would still be there.
Nonsense. Freedom is what RMS says it is. Anyone stating a dissenting opinion should be silenced in order to protect said freedom.
No, the new decency laws will effectively do this by making it prohibitively expensive to do anything the least bit riskee. No need for laws when you can accomplish the same through extortion;)
...are most cops that get injured in the line of duty attacked by people under the age of 18? I'm glad the law has been stopped--this is, IMO, the duty of the parent not the gov't.
Why? He's not hurting anyone and I doubt anyone not already crazy would listen to him anyway. Sheesh, how about just leaving the poor guy alone?
...if the robot can survive terminal velocity falls like cats. Cats falling from very high heights (i.e. skyscrapers) tend to survive the fall better than those falling from lower elevations.
Agreed...this has been done quite a bit. While it's impressive that they did get money out of the scammer, I'm assuming that lots of people do fall for these scams. If the only replies the scammers got were from other scammers, the scams would doubtfully continue.
IE is lacking in functionality compared to Mozilla, and the MS development cycle is inadequate to respond to this type of problem, IMO--but the only way to stop the malware is to stop the malware authors. Bounties work, but to really stop them, we would have to sacrifice a lot of privacy which the internet still (sort of) affords.
At any rate, weilding something that appears to be a gun in public != good idea.
...the Ninentendo GameHyperCube? For all your 4D tesseract gameplaying needs?
Video accounted for 27 percent, up from 25.2 percent, the study will say.
So, movie downloads didn't really increase much.
The OECD report does not give separate numbers for pirated downloads and those that do not infringe copyright
I'm not even going to start on this one.
The biggest growth in downloading last year was in "other files" - neither music nor film - which almost doubled their share to about a quarter of all downloads. The category includes software and pornography, but the report gives no breakdown between the two.
Basically, they're saying they have a lot of data and it seems to indicate something, but they can't really say what, so they just threw out some numbers. Nice work, OECD.
Large companies have a tendency to acquire smaller companies and keep them as a separate department, but they inevitably get phased out over time and absorbed into the larger entity. How many people really want to deal with the software giants past a point?
I dunno...lynx hasn't given me too many problems as of late. Same old paradigm, add more functionality, add more problems.
No, but I'm sure that I could clip it onto my balcony next to the dish satellite. Wait a minute, those pictures aren't to scale?
If only...